Here’s the Lo-down.
Lo Bosworth says her feud with Audrina Patridge on “The Hills” Season 4 was entirely fabricated to fit a premeditated narrative she wasn’t aware of.
“The season of ‘The Hills’ where Audrina and I were at odds, when they shot that season, I had no idea that we were at odds,” Bosworth tells Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast while promoting her partnership with BIC Soleil Escape.
“I thought we were friends,” she adds, “and then the edit came out and the edit was not a very flattering edit of me.”
During the fourth installment of MTV’s glossy docuseries — known for its cinematic production and carefully crafted storylines — Bosworth, now 37, and Patridge, now 39, seemingly clashed after moving in with fellow friend and castmate Lauren Conrad.
Bosworth says editors were able to create onscreen tension between the women by cutting the show “together with voiceovers” and clips of her “staring off into space” that made their friendly interactions appear contentious.
“You don’t know going into those shows, when you’re young, that they already have the entire season mapped out on a wall with Post-It notes of the entire storyline with the arcs and this person’s going to do this and this person’s going to do that,” says Bosworth, who starred on “Laguna Beach” before graduating to Conrad’s spinoff, “The Hills,” in the mid-2000s.
The Love Wellness founder — who launched her feminine care brand in 2016 after retiring from the unscripted space more than a decade ago — even recalls producers setting up multiple camera angles for the same scene to capture the perfect shot to tell a certain story.
“On our show, they would basically have us sit down for a scene, they would shoot it and then they would reposition the cameras. And they would do it five or six times and they would do it so … they would get you to say what they wanted you to say,” she says.
“They were doing it so ultimately that they could get the cut they wanted to fit the narrative that they had planned.”
Unfortunately, the antipathy displayed on camera infiltrated Bosworth’s dynamic with Patridge.
“I think, unfortunately, for her, that created a sense of, ‘Oh, we must not be friends in real life,’” the entrepreneur tells us.
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“That season, in real life, we were totally friends and the show comes out and it changes your real-life relationship.”
Bosworth says she has discussed this specific byproduct of the industry with other reality TV vets, including “Real Housewives of New York City” alum Bethenny Frankel.
“I hear that so often with other people who are on reality television. I was talking to Bethenny Frankel about exactly that the other day,” she says. “The edit that you get can affect your real-life relationships after the fact.”
While Bosworth’s reality TV career is behind her, she teases that a “Laguna Beach” reunion is in the works as the iconic predecessor to “The Hills” gears up for its 20th anniversary in September.
“I think that everybody who was on the first season of ‘Laguna Beach,’ if there is a reunion, has agreed to do it, which I’m really excited by,” she raves.
“I think if I had been asked a couple of years ago, I may have been more nervous to do it. But I think at this point in my life, you know, for everyone watching, it’s the 20th anniversary of the show. For me, it’s my high school 20th anniversary.”
Until then, Bosworth is happy to emphasize the importance of self-care — which, for her, includes winding down with BIC Soleil Escape’s “5 Senses Shave Kit.”
“It creates this like incredible sensory experience in the bath, which I think really elevates like your shower, bath or shaving experience,” she says of the product, which features products — such as scented razors and ingredients for a lavender mocktail — that appeal to all five senses.
“We’re really trying to create like a very immersive spa like experience for your shave.”
